Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler The jolting but not unexpected wake-up call came from London. In a rare and unprecedented joint press conference the chiefs of both the British MI5 domestic intelligence service and their American counterpart the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, presented a riveting account of China’s sweeping intelligence gathering […]
FPI / July 14, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com A computer hacker who had obtained a database from a police network in Shanghai which contained records on 1 billion Chinese citizens attempted to sell the database for 10 bitcoin, or about $200,000. The hacker, identified only by the handle “ChinaDan,” appeared on a hacker forum called BreachForums seeking […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The following by WorldTribune.com columnist Don Kirk, originally appeared in The Hill. The assassination of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, deprived the Asia-Pacific region of a statesman whose greatest legacy is that of a staunch foe of China and North Korea. Americans may remember him as pro-American, an […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 11, 2022 Amid daily revelations about damning evidence on his son Hunter Biden’s laptop, two major warnings regarding China’s ongoing efforts to infiltrate American politics and steal U.S. technology were issued by U.S. intelligence officials last week. FBI Director Christopher Wray and his British MI5 counterpart conducted a rare joint public […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 8, 2022 Team Biden sold 950,000 barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to a Chinese state-owned gas company that has financial ties to a private equity firm co-founded by Hunter Biden, a report said. Biden’s Energy Department in April announced the sale to Unipec. Unipiec is the trading […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 8, 2022 Updated Japan’s former prime minister and most popular living statesman Shinzo Abe, 67, has been shot, a government spokesman said Friday, as local media reported he showed no vital signs. He was pronounced dead at 5 p.m. local time on July 8. “Former prime minister Abe was shot at […]
FPI / July 6, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) director Bill Nelson has warned of China’s aggressive intent in space and on the Moon. But is a lack of leadership by the Biden Administration ensuring that China will gain a dominant position on the Moon? In a […]
by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News July 4, 2022 Employees of the video app TikTok who are based in China and tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can access the personal data of the app’s users in the United States, the company admitted. The company’s admission came in a letter to nine U.S. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler How time flies. It’s been 25 years since Hong Kong returned to Chinese control, a quarter century since the prosperous British Crown Colony became a semi-autonomous part of the People’s Republic of China, the world’s largest dictatorship. Nonetheless, the small but feisty islands on the south China coast […]
FPI / June 26, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com Viewing them as major national security threats, the Trump administration precipitated the closing of some 100 Beijing-linked Confucius Institutes across the United States. China was at one time operating 118 of the institutes in American universities in what the Trump administration saw as an overt influence operation by China […]
